CIIL Weekly Logistics Newsletter CII Institute of Logistics – 2nd July ...

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have motivated the customer to invest further and deploy the solution for
other production sites as well. Total of 1,700 looms employing about 9,000
people have now started using RFID solution for their work flow
automation. Integration with EFFECT, an ERP solution from Score, has
made it a complete solution. The environment was Oracle 8i, Visual Basic
on Windows XP.
Infenion's RF ID chips popularly known as 'my-d' were used for the
purpose. The RFID inlays have Intelligent 10 kbit EEPROM with
contactless interface complying to ISO/IEC 15693 and security logic. my-d
supports the "Chip Sharing Approach" (CSA). Secure memory sectors on
my-d ICs enable different stakeholders in a (secure) supply chain to
handle data. Defined access rules enable the authorized users to work
with the relevant data. Score has adopted a smart way to exploit the
economic potential of RFID technology.
Rajasthan State Road Transport Corporation (RSTC) is another user of
RFID with its passenger buses moving between Delhi and Jaipur fitted
with RFID transponders, enabling their movement to be tracked. RFID is
can be used together with VSAT to track road vehicles. A registered user
can log on to the system through the Internet and can view the current
status of the vehicle. Many companies in developed countries take
advantage of this tracking technology in their fleet operations. An
estimated daily 2.5-3 million trucks move cross the country, logging about
300 km a day, against 800 km in developed countries. A 10 per cent
increase data in real time. This data is transmitted to the Internet, and then
to the company's computers, for viewing the productivity of trucks would
yield an annual saving of some Rs 20,000 crore. Truck transporters use
mobile phones that have GPS tracking. Identification via RFID tags also
helps reduce warehousing costs and error rates in the supply chain.
The Centre for Railway Information Systems (CRIS) of Indian Railways
similarly too uses Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology to
improve the wagon management system of the Railways. CRIS proposes
to have a RFID tag or chip embedded in all the wagons and provides
sheds with handheld devices that would read these chips and thus register
the data. Following this, the details can be fed into the Indian Railways
system to help track wagons accurately. A pilot project will be run in the
East Coast Railways.
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